USA 2012: New York New York

Hi all, me again!

On a 4 hour train ride from NY to Boston at the moment, gotta love how everywhere in the US has free wi-fi! Some lovely scenery outside but I thought I'd catch up on my ''admin'' of travel diary, cataloguing my photos and doing a blog post. Planned to write postcards but forgot to buy them!

Yesterday we spent a full day exploring NY city. It's our second time here and we did most of the sights in 2007 so we spent a few hours in the early morning wandering Times Square - it was a pleasant change for it to be uncongested. Weather in NY is very similar to Hobart so it was a cool morning.

Our plan was to go to the American Museum of Natural History so we jumped on the subway, only to discover that it was the wrong line and was going nowhere near where we wanted! So we got off, asked directions and bought more tickets. Jumped on the right line but realised at the next stop we were going in the wrong direction! Take 3- we got on the right train and got there right on opening time.

Spent 4 hours wandering the 5 floors of the museum - some fantastic displays of HUGE mammals, the world's oldest rock, the world's largest tree, every colour rock and gemstone imaginable, dinosaur bones and fossils, primates, Mayan and Aztec artefacts and more. Puts Hobart's museum to shame! Some pics below. Highlights were the sheer size of some of the mammals, the giant blue whale replica, python skeleton, dinosaur and extinct species bones and fossils, Easter Island statue.

Lunch at the museum then subway back to Times Square, Visted Hershey World, M&M world and a few other shops. Decided we would go see a musical so had a scout around and decided to see Sister Act. Rocked up at the theatre half an hour before the show and got front row on the mezzanine level at a discount, awesome! The show was great too. Went for a late night slice of pizza at Sbarro (yum) and back to the hotel to pack.

Me and the replica blue whale - took up the length of the hall!